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Re: branch probability hinting
- To: matthew green <mrg at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: branch probability hinting
- From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:52:54 -0800
- CC: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>, cgen at sources dot redhat dot com, sid at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20010228173521.A14580@redhat.com> <6863.983407030.cygnus.local.cgen@cygnus.com>
matthew green wrote:
>
> i like this, but i don't like the name very much. in NetBSD,
> we've added predict_true() and predict_false().
Well, builtin is the default name for compiler um.. well.. builtins.
It's been around for a while.
Unless you meant the name that Frank chose, yeah, it could be better.
Personally, I like expect as a name for it, tells you what you are
telling the compiler to expect to happen.
-eric